The NFL keeps showing ads to get people hyped up about the season, and they must assume that we're nitwits or something. Or more likely, they're nitwits.

They make a big deal out of Aaron Rodgers' "hail mary" play against the Lions, first of all. Okay, if you're a Packers fan, yay for you. Let's see if you know who Bart Starr is. But if you're a fan of the other 31 teams, you look at that play and you know that Rodgers was handed a gift play on a completely phantom penalty on the previous snap. That play was a gift to one of the golden boy teams against a downtrodden team. And that's supposed to get me excited? It just annoys me.

And then they show a montage, and one of those plays is the Chiefs-Raiders game last year where the Raiders were given 16 extra plays after the clock had expired. The montage shows the play where the Raiders finally "scored". Again, if you're a Raiders fan you're probably sleepily looking through your crack haze and trying to applaud. But if you're a fan of the other 31 teams, you know that the end of the game was ruined by the officiating, leading to a change in the winner.

Come on, NFL. There are legitimate good plays that were not travesties. Show some of those.